Pop stars Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith were the big winners at the 2015 MasterCard BRIT Awards in London on Wednesday night (25Feb15) after picking up two trophies each. Sheeran won the first award of the night, collecting the British Male Solo Artist prize at the O2 Arena and returned to the stage at the end of the show to claim the ceremony's top prize, MasterCard British Album, for X.
After he was handed his trophy by movie star Russell Crowe, Sheeran told the crowd, "Thank you so much for this... I didn't expect this... It's been a very, very good year for British music... It's a night to celebrate the whole thing... Keep making music."
Sheeran's pal Taylor Swift opened the show with a performance of her hit Blank Space, and she went on to win her first ever BRIT Award, for International Female Solo Artist.
Other winners included Foo Fighters (International Group), Royal Blood (British Group) and Pharrell Williams (International Male Solo Artist), while Mark Ronson landed British Single for his Bruno Mars collaboration Uptown Funk!, and One Direction took home their fifth BRIT after winning British Artist Video of the Year for You And I.
Kim Kardashian presented Sam Smith with the Global Success Award of 2015, before introducing her husband Kanye West to the stage for a performance, and as Smith collected his second award of the night, for British Breakthrough, he dedicated the prize to his longtime collaborator, singer/songwriter Jimmy Napes, whose pregnant wife is due to give birth imminently,
He said, "(Thanks to) Jimmy Napes, whose wife is at home about to pop - so this is for you Tilda."
Madonna returned to the BRIT Awards stage for the first time in 20 years for a performance of Living For Love, but her big moment was marred by a nasty fall as she walked on. The singer appeared to trip on her long black cloak as she hit the stage and she fell back down the steps onto the floor before picking herself up and carrying on with her performance.
Other performers at the event included Sheeran, Royal Blood, Take That and Paloma Faith, who performed her hit track Only Love Can Hurt Like This in a man made rain storm onstage.
The main list of winners is as follows:
British Male Solo Artist: Ed Sheeran
British Group: Royal Blood
International Female Solo Artist: Taylor Swift
British Female Solo Artist: Paloma Faith
International Male Solo Artist: Pharrell Williams
British Single: Uptown Funk! by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars
International Group: Foo Fighters
British Breakthrough: Sam Smith
British Artist Video of the Year: You and I by One Direction
MasterCard British Album: X by Ed Sheeran

Heavy rockers Metallica have confirmed they will be headlining Brazil's 30th annual Rock in Rio festival in September (15). The gig will mark the band's eighth appearance at the event in Rio de Janeiro.
Metallica will join the reunited Faith No More, System of a Down, Queens of the Stone Age and Slipknot at this year's (15) festival.
Announcing the news on Wednesday (25Feb15), the band states, "We're very excited that we have been invited to be a part of the original Rock In Rio 30-year celebration by headlining one night during the festivities taking place September 18th - 27th, 2015 at the City of Rock in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"This will mark our eighth (!) Rock In Rio appearance, including the upcoming May show in Las Vegas. It promises to be quite the party."
Metallica will also headline the first Las Vegas staging of the Rock in Rio event in May (15), alongside Linkin Park, Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars.

Imagine Dragons have scored their first number one album in the U.S. The band's new release, Smoke + Mirrors, has roared to the top of the Billboard 200 countdown with 195,000 sales, which more than doubles the group's best sales week on the chart.
Imagine Dragons' debut album, Night Visions, is also still on the countdown, 129 weeks after its release. The group's first album has sold over 2.5 million copies in the U.S. - but it never topped the charts.
The Las Vegas-based group scored their first album chart number one in the U.K. on Sunday (22Feb15).
Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late falls a spot to two on the Billboard 200 with 187,000 sales in its second week on release, while the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack also slides a place to three.
Taylor Swift's 1989 climbs a spot to four, switching places with her pal Ed Sheeran's x, which rounds out the new top five.
Meanwhile, on the U.S. singles chart, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson have scored an eighth week at number one with Uptown Funk, as Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud stays put at two for a sixth straight week.
Ellie Goulding's Fifty Shades of Grey tune Love Me Like You Do jumps up to three, while Maroon 5's Sugar and Take Me to Church by Hozier round out the new top five.

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran were left cowering in a bathroom when police busted a party in Mark Ronson's hotel room.
The singers went back to Ronson's suite after the 2015 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month (Feb15), but cops later arrived to shut the raucous bash down. Swift immediately grabbed her pop pal and told him to hide, and they snuck off to the restroom when the officers weren't looking.
Sheeran tells BBC Radio 1, "We were at a party in Mark Ronson's room, and then the police shut it down." Swift adds, "It made us feel so cool! We had to hide in a bathroom. I grabbed Ed and I was like, 'Cops are here, come here, come with me.' Who would have thought that I was the one who knew how to get going?" The two were not the only ones who kept away from the officers - they also discovered Irish singer/songwriter Hozier hiding behind a door. Sheeran continues, "Hozier was just standing behind a door and I didn't realise. I opened it up and he was just behind there, standing there." Swift interjects, "And he is a tall dude so seeing him stand behind a door is just an odd sight. A lot of weird things happened that night.... He didn't want to get caught either."

Sam Smith, Pharrell Williams, Taylor Swift and Beyonce are among the stars who have landed top nominations for the 2015 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. Grammy Award winners Smith and Williams will face off for the Favorite Male Singer prize, alongside Justin Timberlake, Nick Jonas, Bruno Mars and Blake Shelton, while Swift and Beyonce join Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry for the female honour.
Favorite Music Group will be a battle between the likes of Coldplay, Maroon 5 and One Direction.
The stars up for Favorite New Artist, which was among the early categories announced on Thursday (19Feb15), include Five Seconds of Summer, Iggy Azalea and Meghan Trainor, while Favorite Song of the Year features Jessie J, Grande and Minaj's Bang Bang competing against Trainor's All About That Bass, Swift's Shake It Off, Azalea's Fancy, Perry's Dark Horse and Problem by Grande and Azalea.
Meanwhile, in the Hollywood categories, Guardians of the Galaxy, Maleficent and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 are among those shortlisted for Favorite Movie, while Angelina Jolie, Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman and Mark Wahlberg are all up for best movie acting accolades, and Meryl Streep (Into the Woods), Cameron Diaz (Annie) and Jolie (Maleficent) are in the running for Favorite Villain.
The winners will be announced on 28 March (15), when Nick Jonas will host the 28th annual awards show in California.

If you sit back and think about it, Kanye West really does act like a super villain. This isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes his efforts are meant for good, but it just doesn't come across that way.
1. He has collaborated with his enemy like Magneto did (yes, that makes Taylor Swift Professor X).
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2. He laughs maniacally but is hiding anger behind it.
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3. He has a signal to his fans.
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4. We're pretty sure he doesn't think that he's human.
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5. He really talks himself up.
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6. He's gone through a terrible accident only to come out stronger on the other side, like how Mr. Freeze became the way he was after an accident in his lab.
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7. Kanye has a noble cause (defending the lack of recognition for Beyoncé), but just goes about it the wrong way. Kind of like how Poison Ivy was an environmentalist, but decided to kill for it...
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8. He publicly outs his enemies.
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Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson have scored a seventh week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in America with Uptown Funk. The duo have kept Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud off the top for another week, while Hozier's Take Me to Church holds the number three spot.
Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney's FourFiveSeconds jumps into the U.S. top five at four and Maroon 5's Sugar slides a spot to five.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift has two hits in the top 10 - her former seven-week number one Blank Space drops to seven, while her new song Style jumps up eight spots to 10.

A birthday poem late country legend Johnny Cash wrote to his wife June has topped a British poll of romantic correspondence. To mark the singer/songwriter's 65th birthday in 1994, the Folsom Prison Blues hitmaker put pen to paper and poured out his feelings for his wife.
He wrote, "You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. You're the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence.
"We got old and got used to each other. We think alike. We read each others (sic) minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes we take each other for granted. But once in a while, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met."
His love note beat out letters from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, poet John Keats, Jimi Hendrix and Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
The poll was commissioned by bosses at British life insurance company Beagle Street to mark Valentine's Day on Saturday (14Feb15).

Taylor Swift has scored 11 weeks at the top of the U.S. album charts with her 2014 release 1989. Swift's latest has become one of the four Billboard 200 chart-toppers to land more than 10 weeks at number one since the beginning of the new century - she also took Fearless to the top and stayed there for 11 weeks.
Only Adele and the Frozen soundtrack have also managed the feat, with Brit Adele spending 24 weeks on top with 21 in 2011 and 2012.
The latest Now That's What I Call Music compilation, Now 53, debuts at two on the new chart, while Ed Sheeran's X slides a spot to three and Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour and Fifth Harmony's new release, Reflection, round out the new top five.
Meanwhile, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson extend their stranglehold on the top of the U.S. singles chart as Uptown Funk lands a sixth week at number one, and Sir Paul McCartney is back in the top 10 with his Kanye West and Rihanna collaboration, FourFiveSeconds. The former Beatles star last hit the top 10 with the theme from Spies Like Us in 1986.
His new hit jumps up to number six on the new countdown.

Taylor Swift has become only the second woman in U.S. chart history to land 10 weeks at the top of the album countdown with two releases. The pop star's 1989 has returned to the top spot for a 10th non-consecutive week, giving Swift a second 10-week stint at the top of the Billboard 200 - she spent 11 weeks at number one with Fearless in 2008 and 2009.
Only Whitney Houston has managed the same feat - she actually scored double-figure weeks at the top with three albums - her self-titled debut (14 weeks in 1986), her second album, Whitney (11 weeks in 1987) and The Bodyguard soundtrack (20 weeks in 1992 and 1993).
Only five other acts have claimed more than one album with 10 weeks at number one, according to Billboard.com - The Beatles (four), The Kingston Trio (three), Henry Mancini (two), The Monkees (two) and Elvis Presley (three).
Swift's return to the top keeps her pal Ed Sheeran's X from landing at number one, while Meghan Trainor's Title, which toppled 1989 last month (Jan15), stays put at three. Last week's number one, Fall Out Boy's American Beauty/American Psycho, falls to six.
Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour returns to the top five at four, while Ne-Yo's Non-Fiction debuts at five.
Meanwhile, on the U.S. singles chart, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson have scored a fifth week at number one with Uptown Funk!
The hit keeps Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud at number two and Hozier's Take Me to Church at three, while Sir Paul McCartney lands his biggest hit in almost 30 years as his FourFiveSeconds collaboration with Kanye West and Rihanna rockets into the top 20 at number 15.